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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

My soldiers told me MySpace was a place to meet girls, so it didn’t seem to have a practical business application and I didn’t want another password to remember. Posterous, Amplify and Quora had yet to be founded. To the Army, engagements often mean meeting with people in the community. An extended community. Prioritize.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ?

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Josh’s examples relate to sites like Digg, which allows a short description, and FriendFeed, which is similar in that respect. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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The Importance of Social Media in a Successful Marketing Campaign

Kikolani

One advantage that social media networks such as Twitter, Blogspot, MySpace and Facebook possess is that of cross-communication. These days, however, if a company has a profile page on Facebook, for example, cross talk alone can generate interest, because of the fluidity of social media websites. Why is this so important?

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Social Pros 25 – Alison Carlman, globalgiving

Convince & Convert

At one point, Digg was the poster child for Social Media and Web 2.0 DJ Waldow: I have Dug or I did Digged, good luck transcribing that, I did at, I had in the past, I guess here and there but you know I guess I’ve always gotten my news from, not as much from the community but, more from my network of friends in my own community.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. No need for the traditional media to be the conduit of communication. In a sense, they can become part of the community.

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Are You Growing Enough Voices

Convince & Convert

I have 4 regular monthly guest posters on SocialFishing, one for each week of the month, each having a particular angle to discuss regarding social media and associations/nonprofits, and it's rounded out the blog really beautifully. Made it better than we could ever do on our own!